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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on T61 (6465-CTO) withSUSE
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Chuck McKinnis wrote:
> I am going to trim this up a little.
> 
> madodel wrote:
>> I just have the /smp /apic.  What does /sap:0x20 do?   Also I updated 
>> to 3.09 using the warpin package and it runs fine now.
> 
> /SAP             Set startup ACPI options
>                    default value: 0
>                      /SAP:0x0
> 
>                    you can assemble this values:
>                    ACPI_FULL_INITIALIZATION        0x00
>                    ACPI_NO_ADDRESS_SPACE_INIT      0x01
>                    ACPI_NO_HARDWARE_INIT           0x02
>                    ACPI_NO_EVENT_INIT              0x04
>                    ACPI_NO_HANDLER_INIT            0x08
>                    ACPI_NO_ACPI_ENABLE             0x10
>                    ACPI_NO_DEVICE_INIT             0x20
>                    ACPI_NO_OBJECT_INIT             0x40
> 
> I think it means that ACPI should not run around and try to play with 
> the devices.

Thanks for that.  I tried google and found lots of mentions, but none that 
actually said what it was for.  I forgot that I have the zip archive and 
there is extensive docs in that that I haven't looked at in over a year. 
Yep its in acpi.doc.

> 
>>
>> Per Roderick Klein's suggestion I switched to the Panorama driver (the 
>> last version I found on the BetaZone) and now window drag is fine.  
>> There is no listing of memory usage that I can find though.  Anyone 
>> know what "Enable Shadow Buffer" does?  I selected it but nothing 
>> seems different.
> 
> I had some problems with Panorama and went back to SNAP.  It is a bear 
> to kill the Panorama driver.  Had to do a good old Alt+F1 and reset to 
> VGA (really ugly).
> 

So far it seems OK here.

>>
>> I rarely ever use wired.  Usually only when I'm at a hotel and that is 
>> all they have.  I will have to give that a try when I get the rest
>>
>>>
>>>> When I tried RC4's Uniaud it trapped.  (ICH8 Family) HD Audio 
>>>> Controller. Chuck said he has sound working with Paul's latest 
>>>> Uniaud driver so I will try that.
>>>
>>
>> I installed the last FAT32 driver as well.  I have a big FAT32 
>> partition to share files with Linux if I ever decide to spend any time 
>> in it.
> 
> I have found that Kubuntu can access my eCS JFS volumes without any 
> problem.  Much easier than fiddling with FAT32.
> 

I've tried JFS under Xandros and never got it to work.  Maybe SUSE has that 
built in.  I hadn't even thought of that.  Thanks for the suggestion.

>>
>>>
>>> It locks up w/ flash, sometimes it plays 1 time, it always locks up
>>> on the 2nd time (at youtube site - haven't tried other views).  FF
>>> 2.0.0.11 w/ flash patch for v9.0.115.  I need to install mplay and
>>> see if that will work.  I tried Z! on an mp3 online and it locked
>>> up.  Haven't tried an mp3 off of the drive.
>>
>> Installing UniAud 1.1.4 RC6 (a complete package 
>> ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud114RC6.zip ) first then Paul's 
>> updated Uniaud16.sys ( http://download.smedley.info/uniaud16test2.zip 
>> ) and UniAud32.sys ( http://download.smedley.info/uniaud32-1.9.4.zip 
>> ). Now sound works works most of the time though the keyboard sound 
>> buttons don't work at all under eCS.  Not sure if it is related, but I 
>> have had a lot of system hangs which only respond to power off.  Or if 
>> its related to the Panorama driver.
>>
>>
>>>> SD/xD/memory stick card slot though eCS doesn't seem to recognize it).  
>>>
>>> Same here, no workie.  If I plug in my card reader it works fine.
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't seem to work in Linux either, unless one has to mount it 
>> before it can be used.  I just have SD cards here.  When I plug one 
>> into the slot a light briefly comes on then goes out.  DFSee only 
>> shows the SATA drive.
> 
> My only camera card is an XD.  Reads fine in WinXP.  Is not recognized 
> in eCS or Kubuntu.  I did go out and download what is supposedly Linux 
> support for the Lenovo Smart Card reader, but it did not seem to help.
> 
>>
>> Since I've been playing with the T61 I've had a number of hard freezes 
>> requiring a power off, but not on boot since I got ACPI working.  Have 
>> you tried Alt-F4 at the boot blob which steps through each device 
>> driver before it is run?  The problem with Alt-F2 is it only shows the 
>> last driver that was loaded.
> 
> Try the /SAP:0x20 parm

OK tried it.  No hang yet, but it seems related to sound as every time I 
try to play a youtube flash it hung.  Now that did work after I  first 
installed UniAud, so something changed.

Mark